With the 2026 Venice Biennale wrapping up its professional previews and officially opening to the public on Saturday, a new foundation dedicated to Koyo Kouoh —the curator of the Biennale’s main exhibition who passed away a year ago —has been announced. Based in Basel, Switzerland, where Kouoh lived for part of her life, the Koyo Kouoh Foundation “continues and structures the work initiated by Koyo Kouoh” with the goal of keeping “a tradition alive, rather than turning it into a still image,” according to the foundation’s website . “It is based on the idea that art is not neutral and that history, power, access, and the conditions in which artists and curators can think, make, and share their work all shape cultural production.” Related Articles The site adds, “It’s important to know that culture isn’t secondary.…